Deputy County Manager Jeff Wells was paid while on administrative leave for three months before his retirement, then cashed out more than $170,000 in accrued benefits.
Investigations
All children who were at the Never Give Up Youth Healing Center have been removed, according to the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.
The Never Give Up Youth Healing Center— the subject of a recent Las Vegas Review-Journal investigation into allegations of child abuse — refused to give updates to a state oversight commission on Thursday.
Jeff Wells, who had been on administrative leave, supervised at least four departments where Review-Journal investigations exposed corruption or other problems.
Regent Byron Brooks spent taxpayers’ dollars producing a letter claiming transparency, but he did not return calls to discuss the letter or the actions of universities.
After a video posted to social media showed a CCSD police officer throwing a student to the ground, the RJ requested a copy of the incident report, as well as any prior complaints that had been made against the involved officer.
Deputy County Manager Jeff Wells was placed on paid administrative leave after discussing his son’s discipline with a county attorney.
Today’s installment of “What Are They Hiding?” is a primer that defines a public record and explains how a person who wants public information can go about getting it.
Deadly crashes involving marijuana are rising in Nevada. Traffic experts fear cannabis lounges will make the problem worse.
Robert Telles, the former Clark County public administrator accused of killing a Review-Journal reporter, is selling five rental properties in Arkansas.
The higher education institutions refused to provide documents that should be available for public inspection under state law.
Taxpayers are footing the bill for Cadillacs, Audis, Teslas and other luxury vehicles for some of Southern Nevada’s highest-compensated government employees.
A Las Vegas obstetrician-gynecologist accused by a state medical licensing board of sexual misconduct, now faces additional complaints filed by former patients.
The investment was pitched as a nearly risk-free opportunity to earn annual returns of 50 percent. There was just one problem, the SEC charged in a civil complaint. None of it was real.
Chad Williams, the controversial ex-director of Southern Nevada’s housing authority, is accused of punching a sleeping woman, and then kicking her in the ribs and face.